In 2015, the European Medicines Agency authorized 93 medicines for commercial sale.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by EMA's own annual reporting and independent trade press (RAPS, BioSpace). Minor terminological nuance: EMA figure reflects CHMP recommendations, which the European Commission formally authorizes, but this is a common simplification and doesn't affect the substance. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on EMA's own 2015 CHMP opinion statistics (upstreams: European Medicines Agency (EMA) 2015 Annual Report, EMA Human Medicines Highlights 2015) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Farmacoepidemiologia documentazione in Europa (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/human-medicines-highlights-2015 (corroboration)
- https://www.raps.org/resource/ema-carries-2014-momentum-recommends-39-new-drugs.html (corroboration)
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/progress-science-medicine-and-health (corroboration)
- https://www.biospace.com/drug-approvals-at-19-year-high-belie-industry-challenges (corroboration)